Trilobit Deepwater Node Market Commitment
CGGVeritas is confirming its commitment to the emerging deepwater node market with an order to manufacture an additional 800 Trilobit four-component (4C) ocean bottom nodes (OBN) to make a total of 1,000 units in its equipment pool. The new nodes, of the field-proven, proprietary seabed seismic acquisition system, are expected to be commercially available by early 2012.
Trilobit has been developed by CGGVeritas and successfully used on programmes in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Asia-Pacific. The system is a flexible, containerised design which can be rapidly mobilised on most ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) vessels.
As a four-component node with a compact integrated architecture, Trilobit provides high-vector fidelity for accurate and repeatable seismic records. These are a necessity for reservoir monitoring applications and for full-azimuth multi-component imaging and inversion including imaging through salt, basalt and gas. In addition, the use of a proprietary and efficient ROV deployment and recovery system makes Trilobit suitable for imaging under platforms or in areas which are inaccessible to traditional towed-streamer and ocean bottom cable (OBC) acquisition systems.
